Such strategies should be informed by serious efforts to go beyond conventional measures of family income to develop more comprehensive measures of economic well-being.
During our second visit, in 2005, we realized that measures had indeed been taken to overcome the HRH crisis, and we could observe some possible early effects of such measures that allowed us to develop more optimistic future scenarios.
Through Internet-based distance learning and other measures, he said, he wants to develop more programs with other countries, like the exchange of students and teachers that the school has with China.
Given the limitations of BMI as an imperfect measure of body fatness, routine anthropometric data collection needs to be extended to develop more informative measures, such as waist circumference in settings where the gold standard tools remain unaffordable.
With their compact size, these sensors can be used in a variety of applications, such as measuring flow parameters in automobiles to develop more efficient engines, monitoring atmospheric conditions to inform climate modelers, or monitoring the infusion rate of a medicine to improve how treatments are administered to patients.
They have pushed us hard to develop more transparent measures of our impact.
The Altmetrics movement aims to develop more sophisticated measures, based on a broader set of attributes, and covering a deeper corpus of outputs.
These methods are now being extended to project planning and to track applications for websites to develop more accurate measures of the human factors contributing to the success of these development projects and their organizations.
It is time to develop more appropriate measures and to use the scientific method itself to help in this endeavor.
Educators must begin to embrace new tools and technologies and use them to develop more meaningful measures of evolutionary thinking and reasoning (National Research Council [2012]).
